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Title Hidden in plain sight : what really caused the world's worst financial crisis and why it could happen again / Peter J. Wallison.
Author Wallison, Peter J.
Publication Info. New York : Encounter Books, [2015]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  332.72 WAL    Check Shelves
Edition First American edition.
Description xviii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-392) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The difference between prime and nontraditional mortgages (NTMS) -- Red herrings : other explanations for the crisis -- The housing finance market before the affordable housing goals -- Government housing policies kick in -- The affordable housing goals and the decline in underwriting standards -- Force fed : the affordable housing goals, the gses, and the NTMS -- Going viral : competition spreads the gses' reduced underwriting standards to the wider market -- The great housing bubble -- Ignorance and bliss : what was known about the NTM market before the crisis -- How 32 million NTMS precipitated a financial crisis -- Fair value accounting and collateral damage -- Bad to worse : the government response -- Conclusion.
Subject Housing -- Finance -- Government policy -- United States.
Mortgage loans -- Government policy -- United States.
Subprime mortgage loans -- Government policy -- United States.
Financial crises -- Government policy -- United States.
United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-2009.
ISBN 9781594037702 (hard cover : alk. paper) : $27.99
1594037701 (hard cover : alk. paper)
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